(n.) The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(2) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(3) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(4) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(5) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(7) #Tigers #Athletics @HunterFelt October 11, 2013 David Lengel (@LengelDavid) @HunterFelt Unless you're Yoenis Cespedes of course!
(8) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(9) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(10) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
(11) Thus many athletes sustain dental-related injuries resulting in deformity and discomfort which may persist throughout their lives.
(12) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(13) The increased volume of flowing blood and increased stroke volume in athletes probably allows for a reduction in flow velocity and thereby a reduction in kinetic energy.
(14) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
(15) Many athletes, particularly female, are iron depleted, but true iron deficiencies are rare.
(16) Maximal power output was on average 81.1 W for the male population and varied from 65.8 W for class II athletes to 92.2 W for class LA.
(17) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
(19) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(20) (GL) and M. deltoideus (D) were studied in 89 athletes practising 11 different sport events.
Stamina
Definition:
(pl. ) of Stamen
(n. pl.) See Stamen.
(n. pl.) The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.
(n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma cortisol concentrations were highest in fish exposed to both the combined stress of WSF exposure and of forced swimming in a stamina tunnel.
(2) These women showed significant (p less than 0.05) improvements in dynamic muscular strength, muscular endurance, and stamina.
(3) And they are going to need it: with Hampstead theatre craftily reconfigured into a running track, and the show heading straight into the West End after its run, the cast will need considerable stamina to get through eight shows a week without injury and exhaustion.
(4) In contrast, postinduction axotomy of axon 3 elicited an accelerated decay of the enhanced synaptic stamina.
(5) Skills for coping with stress that are primarily internal factors include personal management, outlook, and stamina skills.
(6) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
(7) But it was awe-inspiring to watch Rivers try: she had the stamina of someone (several someones) a fraction of her age.
(8) Flemenstar was regarded as Ireland's main hope for the Cheltenham Festival highlight but his stamina looked to give way at Leopardstown in the Lexus Chase last week and there will be many who agree with Jim McGrath, one of those who survived the cull at Channel 4, who doubted the horse's ability to see out the Gold Cup distance next March.
(9) But it could take another two years ... and I don't think I've got the stamina."
(10) I don’t want to be prime minister.” October 2012 The time when he didn’t have the stamina “I don’t have what it takes...
(11) Infection with D. immitis was correlated with differences in age, sex, bodyweight and coat colour, and a reported lack of stamina and the presence of a cough.
(12) For the truly wild-spirited, nothing will challenge the stamina like this park on Baffin Island, reached by flying to Iqaluit and then to Pangnirtung or Qikiqtarjuaq community, each a few miles from the park.
(13) It needed stamina, ice-in-the-veins bravery, cunning, cool judgment and brute determination.
(14) Elizabeth has shown extraordinary commitment, courage, adaptation, patience and stamina, and merits esteem not least because it was never on the cards that her family would get the top job anyway.
(15) A major cause of starvation is congenital weakness associated with birth weights less than 1000 g. Increasing energy during late gestation shows inconsistent effects on birth weight; some dietary component energy sources appear to improve stamina of newborn and(or) energy content of sow's milk with favorable effects on survival.
(16) He also said it had to be accepted “a stamina player gets injured less when he runs than an explosive player”.
(17) A French prime minister needs stamina, pugnacity and no fear of unpopularity.
(18) The half-day workshops taught management of the stresses of medical practice through: (1) learning and practicing interpersonal skills that increase the availability of social support; (2) prioritization of personal, work, and educational demands; (3) techniques to increase stamina and attend to self-care needs; (4) recognition and avoidance of maladaptive responses; and (5) positive outlook skills.
(19) Hate crime is everyday reality for rural LGBT people, study says Read more On the issue of trans people being excluded from sporting activities, Vaizey said: “It’s obviously incumbent for sporting authorities to call this practice out when it happens.” Vaziey said although the Equality Act allowed an exception for single-sex sports to exclude other sexes, “based on strength and stamina reasons”, he added that: “Clearly there are many, many sports where both sexes can compete on level terms.” He said he expected bodies such as Sport England and other national bodies for sport to call out “arbitrary exclusion”.
(20) She has run herself ragged for four years and she knows how much physical stamina it requires to campaign," said Galston, now a political analyst at Washington-based thinktank the Brookings Institution.